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Nagoya, pioggia.
Un bar e una farmacia sullo stesso marciapiede.
Bere e rimediare, senza fare troppa strada.
La città pensa a tutto, anche a questo.

名古屋、雨。
同じ歩道に並ぶバーと薬局。
飲んで、具合が悪くなっても遠くへ行く必要はない。
街はこういうことまでちゃんとできている。

Nagoya, rain.
A bar and a pharmacy sharing the same sidewalk.
Drink first, fix it later — no need to go far.
The city has already thought about it.

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• Slot: ‘There is a belief we can do special things’

• Luis Enrique tells his players to beware ‘pitfalls’

Arne Slot has said Liverpool do not face an impossible task against Paris Saint-Germain but must produce the perfect performance to overcome the European champions in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Liverpool require another stirring Anfield comeback in Tuesday’s second leg to salvage their hopes of silverware having lost 2-0 at Parc des Princes last week. PSG were vastly superior in the first leg and should have won more comfortably, although their head coach, Luis Enrique, described such talk as “a trap” and claimed there will be “pitfalls” for his team at Anfield.

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Mixed news for Farke and Leeds. Anton Stach and Joe Rodon were injured in the team’s FA Cup tie at West Ham last weekend, but Gabi Gudmundsson (groin), Jaka Bijol (knock) and Noah Okafor (back) have all beaten fitness tests to take their place in the starting XI tonight. This is an attacking line-up from the visitors, make no mistake.

If you are wondering where Kobbie Mainoo is, he’s injured, which means Ugarte comes in for a rare start. The Uruguayan, a €50m purchase in 2024, has been linked with a move away this summer, with Newcastle a potential destination.

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Orbán is out in Hungary and talks have failed to end the war in Iran – ill-fated roadtrip has been setback for Maga aims

Shortly before JD Vance’s ill-fated week crisscrossing the world, Donald Trump asked him during a private Easter brunch about how the Iran negotiations were shaping up. “If it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” Trump said to laughs in the room. “If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.”

The joke at Vance’s expense contained an unfortunate nugget of truth: this is not an administration that rewards failure.

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The finding that these murders could have been prevented is devastating for all those involved

The fatal stabbings that turned a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside, into a nightmare on 29 July 2024 would never have happened if public bodies had done their jobs properly. Sir Adrian Fulford’s conclusion, at the end of phase one of the inquiry into the murders, was blunt. The deaths of Bebe King, six, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and injuries to 10 other people, were the result of grave failures by police and council officers, health professionals and the anti‑terrorism Prevent programme. The multi-agency systems that are meant to link them together turned out to have deadly flaws.

Sir Adrian prefaced his findings by stating that the responsibility of the perpetrator, Axel Rudakubana, is “absolute”. He also attached significant blame to Rudakubana’s parents, who knew about the 17-year-old’s stockpile of weapons. They ought to have alerted police, above all in the week leading up to the attack, when his father managed to prevent him from taking a taxi to his former school to carry out a violent attack.

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Dozens of feral pachyderms linked to drug kingpin to be killed because of threat to native species and villagers

Colombian officials have authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos descended from animals brought to the country in the 1980s by Pablo Escobar, after the feral beasts displaced native species and threatened local villagers.

The environment minister, Irene Vélez, said the decision was reached because other methods to control their population had been expensive and unsuccessful, including neutering some of the animals or moving them to zoos. Vélez said that up to 80 hippos would be affected by the measure. She did not say when the hunting would begin.

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Na gefrunnik met volmachten moeten de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen in Gorinchem opnieuw, en dan zou je zeggen dat de democratie dus zegeviert, maar nee hoor, dan moet je net Gorinchem hebben. Klaarblijkelijk zijn die mensen dus niet in staat om een stembusgang in goede banen te leiden, en ook bij de herkansing gaat van alles mis. Zo is een VVD-raadslid helemaal over z'n theewater omdat de datumprikker uitkwam op 29 april, in de meivakantie dus. "Organiseer je de stemming net na de vakantietijd, dan zijn er meer inwoners thuis, worden stempassen op tijd ontvangen en gebruikt," pruttelt Niels van Santen in Trouw, maar we weten allemaal wat hij echt bedoelt: dan zijn er meer VVD'ers thuis, want die mensen hebben naast een gezellig karakter ook vaak een onredelijk hoog inkomen, in ieder geval in verhouding tot het lulkoekwerk dat ze verrichten. Afijn. Van Santen heeft aangekondigd een verlies van de VVD niet te accepteren, en roept zijn achterban op om 'hang Reintje Wilhelmina Jezina (Reinie) Melissant-Briene' te scanderen en het stadhuis te bestormen de uitslag hoe dan ook gewoon te zullen accepteren.

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Nagoya, pioggia.
Un bar e una farmacia sullo stesso marciapiede.
Bere e rimediare, senza fare troppa strada.
La città pensa a tutto, anche a questo.

名古屋、雨。
同じ歩道に並ぶバーと薬局。
飲んで、具合が悪くなっても遠くへ行く必要はない。
街はこういうことまでちゃんとできている。

Nagoya, rain.
A bar and a pharmacy sharing the same sidewalk.
Drink first, fix it later — no need to go far.
The city has already thought about it.

Zo'n dertig jongerenorganisaties, scholen en hulpverleners luiden de noodklok. Ze verenigen zich in een groeiend initiatief om jongeren met 'donkere gedachten' beter te bereiken en te ondersteunen. Hun boodschap: wacht niet tot het escaleert, maar zorg dat jongeren gezien en gehoord worden.

Zo'n dertig jongerenorganisaties, scholen en hulpverleners luiden de noodklok. Ze verenigen zich in een groeiend initiatief om jongeren met 'donkere gedachten' beter te bereiken en te ondersteunen. Hun boodschap: wacht niet tot het escaleert, maar zorg dat jongeren gezien en gehoord worden.

Maine is on track to become the first U.S. state to impose a temporary statewide ban on new data center construction. "Lawmakers in Maine greenlit the text of a bill this week to block data centers from being built in the state until November 2027," reports CNBC. "The measure, which is expected to get final passage in the next few days, also creates a council to suggest potential guardrails for data centers to ensure they don't lead to higher energy prices or other complications for Maine residents." From the report: Maine's bill has a few steps to go through before becoming law, notably whether Gov. Janet Mills will exercise her veto power. Mills asked lawmakers to include an exemption for several areas of the state where data center construction could continue. However, an amendment to do so was stuck down in the House, 29 to 115. Complicating Mills' decision is her campaign to become Maine's next senator. Mills is facing off against Graham Platner, an oyster farmer, in a high-profile Democratic primary. Platner is leading Mills in most recent polls by double digits.

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De olieprijzen weerspiegelen nog niet de ernst van de ongekende aanvoercrisis die is veroorzaakt door de oorlog in Iran. Maar dat zal binnenkort veranderen, waarschuwt topman Fatih Birol van het Internationaal Energieagentschap (IEA) maandag.

Ongeveer 13 miljoen vaten olie per dag aan aanbod is volgens hem stilgevallen door het conflict in het Midden-Oosten en de vrijwel gesloten Straat van Hormuz. Ook zijn meer dan tachtig energiefaciliteiten beschadigd tijdens de gevechten. Het herstel van de fabrieken, exportterminals en raffinaderijen kan wel twee jaar duren, aldus de IEA-topman.

Door de verstoringen zijn de brandstofprijzen hard gestegen. Vorige maand maakte het IEA bekend dat zijn 32 leden samen ruim 400 miljoen vaten olie vrijgeven uit de noodvoorraden. Dat is de grootste vrijgave uit de geschiedenis van de in Parijs gevestigde organisatie. Birol zei maandag dat hij hoopt dat een nieuwe vrijgave van olievoorraden niet nodig zal zijn.

Tesla kreeg vrijdag toestemming om zijn rijhulpsysteem in Nederland te lanceren, als eerste land in Europa. Dat FSD-systeem laat Tesla’s onder toezicht van de bestuurder vrijwel zelfstandig rijden. Het werkt niet perfect en is duur.